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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

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a general revival of trade at Hartz &
Bahnsen's drug store as their giving away
to their customers of so many free trial
bottles of DR.. Kings New Discovery foi
Consumption Their trade is simply
enormous in this very valuable article
from the fact that it always cures and
never disappoints. Coughs, colds, asth
ma, bronchitis. Group, and all throat ant
lung diseases quickly cured. You car
test it before buying by getting 'ria
bottle free large size 81. Every bottle
warranted
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

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Warranted to speedily cure burns. bruises,
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GERS, piles, chilblains, corns, letter, chap
ped hands, and all Subscriptions, gusran-
teed to cure in every instance, or money
refunded. % cents per boz For sale by
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Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

How biilowy rides the buggy or surrey,
Whether you jog or whether you hurry;
| Provided. you know, you have got that thing
! The people are praisiDg-the Rice Coil Spring.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

Superfluously exclusive people at sum
mer hotels are rarely confident as to their
own social position.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

Many anglomaniacs regret that they
did not make Buffalo Bills acquaintance
before he went abroad.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

Tatting as taught by the sisters in
convent, has been taken up by the ladies
as summer fancy work.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13
uosFoRp's ACID pHosPHATE

STRENGTHENS THE INTELLECT
Or. D. P. Mcclure says. Il find it
very beneficial to strengthen the intel
] leet.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13
I'm a dude,
A dandy dude
And always in thu fashion ;
Tou can tell
I'm a swell


The professor was obliged to admit
that the description seemed to suit the
singer, but he said he had no experience
in preparing debutants for the variety
and minstrel stage, and he neither taught
nor encouraged that class of music.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

Modern Beau Brummels continue the
effort to make themselves look like an
English groom.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13

Novels are written and published aow~
adays for no other purpose than to help
along some summer resorts.
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13
He Could sing

A fashionable young man of city
near by, who is prone to dress fastidi-
ously in the latest style, recently went to
a staid professor of that city for the pur
pose of taking singing lessons.
Can you sing2" asked the professor.
Yes, sir, little, timldly replied the
prospective pupil
Please sing something; | would like
to know how you can do
And to the professors surprise, and to
that of the young mans relatives who
had come with him, be launched forth in
this style:
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13
MILWAUKEE & ST. PAUL.
EEsT AND SOUTHWEST.

Accommodation trains leave Rock Island sthfs
a NJ and 30 p m; arrive st2 .t5 a m and 3:2f
P. m
Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-07-13
WHEN YOU TRAVEL

Line selected by the United s,sies Government to
the Fast Ma'i,-the
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08
PERSONAL.
EASTERN.

Rev. E. w. Preble accepts the call to Web
ster, Mass, beginning his pastorate last Sun
day.
Rev. F. A. Dillingham; takes the pastorate
at Dover. N. H., and has begun his parish
duties.
Dr. David Quackenbush, Of New York, one
of the original members of the Third Uni
versalist church, departed this life Thursday,
Dec. %. He was ga man of quiet tastes,
large charities and high personal character"
Says the Brooklyn Eagle: "Rev. DR.. Gun
nison, pastor CT ALI Souls Universalist
church, apparently has entirely recovered
from his illness of last summer which COM
PEELED him to vacate his pulpit for three
months. He is working hard, and the soci-
ETY. never showed more signs of prosperity
than at present"
OF Rev. W. N Barber, of Williamsville,
VT, the Leader says: 'Despite his many
years of service, he is vigorous in body and
young in spirit. He keeps out of ruts, is well
informed upon all living issues, and breaches
timely and practical sermons. Instead of
fishing old discourses out of his barrel he
prepares new sermon every week, adapted
to the present needs of his hearers. Are
there none of our older preachers who could
wisely initiate his example?''
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08
THE ANDOVER CONTROVERSY.

The trial of the Andover professors,
now in progress in the city of Boston,
is the chief theological attraction of the
day.
About some things connected with
this controversy there can be but one
reasonable opinion. There is no doubt
that Professor Smyth and his col
leagues have violated the conditions of
the endowment from which they have
drawn their salaries. They have en-
ployed an exceedingly liberal range Of
Interpretation, to state it charitably, in
performing their duties under the
pledges they have been obliged to
make in order to obtain and hold their
position in the Seminary. In short,
they have violated the spirit of their
contract. On this point there is only
one reasonable opinion.
Again, no matter what may be the
final decision of the Board of Visitors,
even if it be in favor of the Andover
professors, such decision does not
place the American Board of Foreign
Missions under bonds to send future
probation men to foreign lands as mis-
sionaries. Said Board may still con-
sistently refuse to make missionaries
of men holding this particular heresy.
On this point all men who are inform
ed as to the terms under which the two
organizations were incorporated, agree.
But there are some questions arising
from this controversy, about which
there are at least two radically different
opinions. The Rev. DR.. Geo. F. Ma
goun, writing to the Iowa State Register,
under date of Dec. 20, 1885, attempts a
distinction between freedom of belief
and freedom of speech, which is mani
testify erroneous. He maintains that
anybody is at liberty to believe any
thing he pleases, be it error or truth;
but that no one is at liberty to teach
within the limits of an institution any
doctrines which that institution author
atively denies. DR.. Magoun's article
in the Register amounts to this: Con-
gregationalists are free to believe any
thing they please, provided they do not
teach anything which is contrary to the
received doctrines of Congregational
ism. Is this true? Let us see.
Freedom to hold belief, but not to
teach it, is no freedom at all. What
believe, unless l declare my belief, has
no visible character. To the world it is
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

nothing. If Martin Luther and Chris
TOPPER Columbus had kept their beliefs
to themselves, of what value would
those beliefs have been to the world +?
Because these men dill not suppress
their beliefs, we enjoy the fruits of
them-the Protestant Reformation and
the New World. To declare ones con-
victions, to press them with fearless
and manly earnestness, is the proof of
the reformer; the evidence of moral val
ne. An important belief held by a
man who has Quick conscience, is
destructive weight to him if he dare
not teach it. There is, therefore, no
liberty of belief which does not imply
the liberty to teach that belief. Belief
is to an honest man authority to teach,
from which there is no appeal. If you
prohibit man from teaching, you de-
stroy the value of his belief.
If it be true that the liberty to be-
lieve a doctrine implies the duty to
teach it, what constitutes legitimate
freedom Of religious belief among Con-
gregationalists? Congregationalism rep
resents a definite religious belief, which
belief is clearly defined in the several
articles of the Congregational creed.
This creed is authoritative. Hence it
follows that whenever freedom of be-
lief on the part of Congregationalists
presses beyond the confines of the au-
thorized doctrines, it loses it's character
as liberty and becomes license. If not,
then there is no license possible in mat
tiers of belief.
And right here we submit that no
Congregationalist has a right to believe
that Universalism is true or rather,
no person who believes in the truthful
ness of Universalism, has moral right
to continue member of a Congrega-
tlonal church. Congregationalism and
Universalism are dogmatically incom-
patible they cannot be made to COM
bine openly in harmonious action as to
the sum of Christian doctrine. If all
the essentials of Congregational belief
are true, then the root idea of Univers-
alist belief is not true; and vice versa;
but the fact of belief implies the duty
to teach. The believer in Universalism
who enters the fellowship of a Congre-
gational church, and there teaches his
Universalist ideas, will create a dis
turbance will commit a positive wrong.
On the other hand, if he remains
member of a Congregational church,
and agrees to say nothing about his
Universalism, he outrages his con-
science-he hides his light under a
bushel; he sells his manhood. There
is only one alternative, and that is the
right and honorable thing to do-be-
levers in Universalism should be men,
bers of the Universalist church. For
such there is no honorable freedom of
belief, where the freedom to teach is
denied them. IFS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

-BR. r. s. OWEN, of Bird gewater,
Iowa, is another Of our readers who finds
special help in the sermons published in
The UNIvERsALIsT. He gives us some
excellent thought in the following brief
epistle:
81 often read of the testimony of many of
our brethren in the faith-through your col
umns-and enjoy it; but not often do find
one whose time is so similarly applied to
the perusal of your most excellent paper,
as the one you referred to in your last issue,
about his reserving the sermon page for his
Sunday reading. And, like him, l enjoy
them. But am unlike him in one respect,
find nothing dry in those sermons. True, not
all sermons glow with the ardor and enthusi-
asm that they would, could we see the speaker
as he delivers them. But to take up as they
come before us, we must adjust ourselves to
them. That is, if doctrinal, place ourselves
in a mood to receive doctrinal sermons.
Now, this brother loves doctrinal sermons,
yet would have them just often enough to
keep before us and the world what are really
the advancing thoughts of the great minds,
And yet this is not all, lest We become selfish.
/ love to note the ,ermons that come from
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

various parts of the world. These are really
missionaries to many to lead them in the
right way.
but did this brother ever consider the many
different circumstances that the readers of
these sermons are placed under, especially
at the present timer Look at the financial
crisis through which we are passing. These
sermons reach some who believe in them
among the wealthy. They reach others
step lower whose daily labors are cheered by
the thoughts therein set forth. They reach
others who scarcely can get the necessaries
of life together. and who have to scrimp in
order to pay for their paper, and yet would
not do without it if it cost twice the amount.
And yet each of these classes must adjust
their moods SO az to receive the greatest good
possible out of the sermons sent out from
week to week; and while love to peruse
them, do say it does me great deal more
good to look into the eyes of the speaker and
have my spirit blend with the spirit of the
speaker, and to this end | work, hoping the
day is not far distant when our glorious
cause shall be promulgated from shore to
shore, and all shall know Him from the least
to the greatest
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

MR.. w. ALEX JOHNSON, President of
the National Council Of Charity Officers
writes to Mrs. G. B. Marsh, of this city,
the efficient President of the Illinois In
dustrial School for Girls, endorsing the
movement to provide State supervision
and support for that most practical of
humane movements. Mr.. johnson says:
The State has long recognized its duty in
the matter of education for children who
have homes and parental care by means of
public schools. 1t also recognizes a special
duty to those of unfortunate classes for
whom the ordinary schools are not available,
and in it's schools-not asylums-for the deaf
and dumb, the blind, and the predetermined,
it provides not only training. but support.
Is there not as imperative a duty on the
Mother-State, to provide that these still more
unfortunate children who, without proper
parental care, swarm our streets and alleys,
shall have chance to grow up into useful
citizens, as that the blind and the deaf shall
be trained in usefulness.
l am aware that the number of this latter
class is larger than that of the So called ''de-
fective classes" but this is all the more rea-
son that the State should intervene, since the
consequences to its future prosperity are the
more serious.
In one of the Eastern States, believe the
educational argument has so prevailed, that
the State Industrial School is placed under
the charge, not of the State Board of Chart
ties, but under that of Education.
sincerely trust that the bill to be present
ed at the next session, or one embodying
similar plan, will become law, and that ILL
nois will take rank with her most enlightened
sister States in her care of dependent chill
dren. Most respectfully yours,
W. ALEX. JOHNSON,
President National Council of Charity Off
GERS.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08
WESTERN.

Rev. A. N. Alcott, Of Elgin, exchanged
on Sunday with Rev. Mr.. McAlpine, of
Dowagiac.
Rev. G. @. Conner, of Springfield, ILL.,,
breaches for the Plum street church,
Cincinnati, during January.
Rev. DR.. Balch, of Elgin, has been very
seriously i'll for some time past, but at last
reports was convalescing. His proposed
trip to southern California is postponed
on account of this illness.
Benz. Lombard, Jr., has given $40 to
be expended for fine steel engra wing of
Benz Lombard, ST., the founder of Lom-
bard University, to appear in the forth
coming annual. The number will con.
tain engravings of others prominently
connected with the university and much
reading matter relating to che history
and sphere of the college.
Rev. J. M. Payson, recently of Roches-
ter, Mimi, under date of Dec. 81, writes:
II closed my labors with Grace Church,
Rochester, last Sunday, Dec 26. On Christ
mas eve reunion was held in the church
We have only the most pleasant memories in
connection with this good people. We had
already received many testimonials of their
love, but we were yet to receive one more
marked assurance of their friendship. Br.
L. ii: Bliss, on behalf of the society, pre-
sented the pastor and his wife an elegant
Turkish chair. l can wish my successor no
greater blessing than that he receive the uni
versal and cordial support which has been
accorded me. Whoever may engage with
this people, l can assure him that his lines
nave fallen IN as pleasant places as can be
found anywhere in our vineyard. -
Br. Payson's new address is 504 Cass
street, Lacrosse, Wis.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08
HUMAN OALVARIES."

In the Logan memorial discourse of
Rev. John Alabaster, at Trinity Meth
odist Episcopal Church, in this city, on
Sunday-the church of which the Gen
eral was member-we find the follow
ing paragraph
Grant dying on Mount McGregor.;
Logan dying on Columbia Heights
such human Calvaries reflect the luster
of the greater, and while men gaze,
these lesser heights become mounts of
TRANSPORTATION to human character.
Happy Nation, to have such honored
names; and thrice happy State of Hi
nois, whose love nurtured to undying
fame the three illustrious sons of her
adoption-Douglas, the brilliant orator
and patriotic statesman Lincoln, the
martyred guardian of the great Repub-
lie; Grant, whose sword gained the vic
tory, and whose well-rounded life is the
admiration of all the world and then,
when this great commonwealth could
do no more, out of her own bosom she
gave her favorite son, with them to
voice undying purposes, to gain immor-
tai triumphs, and to stand at last, with
laureled brow, amid true princes and
great men of all ages"
A good deal may be pardoned to
Methodist pastor on such an occasion as
the memorial service of the distinguish
ed Logan, in the church where he was
accustomed to worship. A very high Or
der of eulogy wasnaturally expected, and
the congregation were not disappointed
in this respect in DIR. Alabaster's dis
course. But it will occur to many that
the opening sentence of the above par
agraph is open to criticism, as going
beyond the limitations proper to funeral
eulogy, even lin the case of so distin-
guished career as that of General Lo-
gan. 1t is not in good taste, to say the
least, to speak of "human Calvaries,"
or to suggest, even thus remotely, any
resemblance between the death of the
Saviour of mankind on the mount of
the crucifxion, and that of Grant on
Mount McGregor, and Logan on Co.
lumbia Heights. From a strictly hui
man and rationalistic standpoint, this
language would be deemed extravagant;
but from a Christian standpoint, and
coming from an accredited minister of
the gospel, it is not only extravagant,
but reprehensible, bordering strongly,
indeed, on irreverence.
The plain, blunt, and unpretentious
Logan, not eminent in any degree for
moral or spiritual attainment, simply
an average, honest, everyday Christian,
was no such character as warrants in
his death any such exalted reference.
The same may be said of Grant. Both
these distinguished men were human,
very human, and died very much as
other men die. Neither of them made
any profession of exalted moral and
religious experience. To speak of the
places of their death as "human Calva-
ries" is to associate them with Mem
DRY which should be held sacred by the
Christian heart, and not sacrificed to
any rhetorical emergency. DR.. Alabas-
ter's meaning may be correct enough
his choice of words to express it is I'M
fortunate.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

AS ANNOUNCED last week, the bill
for the establishment of home and
school for the protection and training
of such girls as should be wards of the
State, will be introduced in the Illinois
legislature this winter; and in our last
paper we gave full description of the
bill. The Mail well remarks on this
subject: 1.-THE State is amply able, and
it is clearly its duty, to make some pro-
vision for the better moral and physi-
cal welfare of such young girls as may
be without natural protectors. Instead
of being permitted to grow up in igno-
rance and vice they should be taken
and trained to lives of purity and use
fulness."
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

THE DEATH OF GENERAL LOGAN,
amid the holiday festivities of the
closing week of the year, has called
forth expressions of heartfelt sorrow
all over the land. During the week
following his sudden and unexpected
departure, and before the funeral ser
vices at Washington, hundreds of me-
mortal services were held, and in the
West, where the General was more in
timately known, these formal express
sions of the Nations sorrow were most
impressive. With the notable excep-
lions of Garfield and Grant, no Ameri-
can of the present generation since
Lincoln, has been carried to the grave
amid such sincere and universal out
pourings of the Nations sorrow, as the
soldier and statesman of Illinois, JOHN
ALEXANDER LOGAN.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08
SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION

SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE INSTRUCTION.
Petitions have been sent out over Ohio
in the interest of bill that will come
before the Legislature at its next session
asking the enactment of law that shall
make the teaching of science on the "ef-
fects OF alcohol and other narcotics"
compulsory in all schools under public
control. That these petitions may be
generally signed and returned to Mrs
Antoinette Clevenger, Wilmington, O., by
Jan. 10, we ask the pastors of the State to
call the attention of the people to this
important measure.
The success of this effort to fortify the
children through education against the
many temptations of to-day, will depend
upon the purpose of the people, whose
will in the matter should determine leg.
islators. Shall we not, as individuals, let
our purpose be known, not only by sign
ing this petition, but also by personal
appeal to our representatives at Colum-
bus? "What the children are to-day the
nation will be morrow"
Let us then, by emphatic and systemat-
ic means, aim to establish the children
upon the principles of sobriety, that the
nation of tomorrow, unfettered of igno-
rance, may have clear heads, strong hands
and pure hearts.
Mrs. FANNY w. LETTER,
State Supt. Education Dept. of Ohio W.
c. T. u.
The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-01-08

The New York Aduocate, speaking
of FRANCES POWER CoBBE's strong
belief in God, and quoting the remark
lately made, that she has never been a
"Positivist, nor found her God in col
lective humanity" remarks: "We
have never seen, however, any satisfac-
tory standing place for simple Deism
without revelation of God in Christ. "
This is, no doubt, true from the Chris
tian standpoint but, nevertheless, we
should all rejoice that this able woman
who has made so many valuable contri-
buttons to the literature of faith and
hope, stands on the platform of I'M
doubted faith in God, although not
believer in the revelation of Christian
ity,